Cotton packer



Dec. 23, 1930. A. HIGHTOWER COTTON PACKER Filed Aug. 3. 1929 INVENTOR Patented Dec; 23, 1930 ARTHUR nIGHrowEn, or rnos'r, 'rnxns COTTON PAGKER Application filed August 3, 1929. Serial No. 383,288. r

This invention relates to improvements in agricultural implements, particularly .for cotton and the primary object thereof is to provide a packer for packing the soil around young growing cotton plants to prevent Vescape of moisture from the soil.

The invention aims to provide a simple construction designed to bring I about the above results and which is adapted to attachment to an ordinary cultivator and drawn over the young cotton plants. The attachment embodying the invention is of such shape and weight as to prevent injury to the crop and at the same time repacks the soil disturbed by the preceding cultivator shovels. r

The invention will be better understood from a perusal of the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and wherein:

Figure l is a side elevational view of an ordinary cultivator and illustrating the invention attached thereto, and

Figure 2 is an enlarged perspective View of the invention in operative position attached to the legs of a cultivator, the latter being partly broken away. I

Referring more in detail to the drawings, 1 denotes a cultivator beam carrying shovels 2 secured to the leg's'3 supporting the shovels. Each shovel includes theusual springs 4..

The invention consists of a roller constructed of any preferred material such as concrete, wood or metal to provide sufficient weight. The roller or packer element is of the same diameter at the ends 5 and tapers to the center. This reduces the diameter at the central point 6, enabling the roller to 0 more easily follow the hill 7 formed by the soil in which the cotton plants 8 are growing, and simultaneously riding over the plants.

The roller includes a frame 9 which is pivoted by the arms 10 to a shaft 11. The shaft 11 is by preference rigidly seated in and traverses the center of the roller. The arms 10 at the point of connection to the shaft 11 are spaced from the ends 5 of the roller to eliminate friction between the arms and roller and to prevent jamming and collection of weeds and soil. The arms 10 are held in this position by the hubs 12.

The frame rods and spri is connected to the cultivator ng supportlng heel or member 13 by chains or the like 14.

In operation the roller or packer is drawn over the center of a row of growing cotton plants.

By this is meant of course young plants which have just ascended a short distance from t he soil. Cotton plants being sturdy and strong, when the roller passes over them the standing pos plants will spring back to erect ition and remain uninjured.

pended claim a roller for r epacking the loose earth after the passage of said earth working implements, said roller being of reduced diameter adjacent its center and tapering inwardly from adjacent its ends, and flexible chain members connecting each side of the roller to one of the earth working elements on the same side of the cotton row, whereby the roller will follow in the wake of the cultivator and conform to the crown of a row of soil containing cotton plants.

In testimon y whereof I afiix my signature. ARTHUR HIGHTOWER. 

